Did you guys know Billie Joe wrote Platypus about this journalist who critized his music? And the journalist ended up having cancer, hence "I heard your sick, sucked on that cancer stick, a throbbing tumor and a radidtion high." Then the journalist died.

I've heard all the green day albums other than Warning and their B-sides albums, and this is my favorite. It's such a different feel for the band, but refreshingly so. On the other hand, they don't compromise their simple punk charms to be different. GREAT stuff here.

This album could be called Green Day's London Calling (pardon the exaggeration), but this is when Green Day broke out of their fast hard punk shell and played whatever they wanted. Ska, acoustic ballads, Beatles tunes, hard-ass punk, and kinky Stray Cats tunes. And like London Calling, it's pretty overrated :-).